Saturday, February 1, 2014

These are my notes from Joyce Meyer's message on Saturday evening 2/1/14 7 pm Service at Lakewood Church. This is the first message in the three part series on attitude. This
message focuses on the power of attitude. Joyce shares five keys to having a good attitude. I am not affiliated with
Joyce Meyer Ministries (other than being a partner and volunteer). These
are my personal notes of her message; not an exact transcript.

Strongly on Joyce’s heart this year has been that there are 2 kinds of people.

Those who do things on purpose and passive people.

Passive people want good things but sit around and wait for them to happen.

22 Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion;

23 And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude],

24 And put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God’s image, [Godlike] in true righteousness and holiness.

Stop acting like you did before you were saved.

We can choose to put on that old nature.

Keep him dead.

Stop acting like you used to and start acting like you ought to.

Vs 23 is the bridge (how).

Constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind.

Joyce knows she had at least 7 or 8 times when she had to quickly purposely straighten out her attitude.

You can’t just go with your feelings.

She had to try 7 times to get her contact in her eye.

The person who purposes to keep a good attitude doesn’t mean you feel like it or that it’s fair.

You do it because you know the Word is true.

But there are no shortcuts.

There are no drive-through breakthroughs.

You only get it by going through.

Airplanes have attitude indicators.

It shows the position of the plane to the horizon.

The horizon represents average.

Nose high when climbing; nose down when diving.

If we have a nose high attitude we’ll always be climbing and above average.

Joyce doesn’t think we comprehend the power of one attitude.

Joyce thinks about Joseph a lot because he went through tough unfair things.

After 13 years of wrong imprisonment his attitude was good and he ended up in the palace.